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...pivotal point came on Jan. 30, when an opposition rally in the western city of Kaliningrad attracted 10,000 people, an incredibly high turnout for Russia's docile political culture and likely the biggest protest in at least five years...
...National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation Jan. 27 into approximately 905,000 Cobalt models in the United States after receiving more than 1,100 complaints of loss of power steering, 14 crashes and one injury, GM disclosed. "We're playing this as honest and transparent as we can," said Mark Reuss, president of GM's North American Operations. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...Jan. 12, Google threatened to quit the Chinese market if the Chinese government did not discontinue its internet censorship practices. The company announced this consideration following China’s alleged attacks on its computer systems...
...long week—perhaps President Obama’s longest since taking office—it was all about the banks. On Jan. 21, a New York Times headline read, “Obama to Propose Limits on Big Banks,” while the Motley Fool, a website dedicated to financial issues, blurted, “Bank Regulation: Sometimes Populism is Justified.” But shortly thereafter, with all of the buzz surrounding Obama’s State of the Union address and the renewed concern about unemployment levels, the banks fell off the agenda and haven?...
...buildings, many of which were further damaged because they were constructed too close to one another. The second was the failure of newer buildings like Concepción's apartment high-rises, which, while not pancaking like poorly built structures did during Haiti's 7.0-magnitude earthquake on Jan. 12, in many cases tilted over and broke, because even the strongest foundations can experience a kind of liquefaction by vibration in such powerful temblors. The last was the tsunami wreckage - and if early reports are true that it caused the most deaths, says Zapata, "that's something the Chileans...